The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-05-23
TWO VOICES FROM KANSAS.
One from an Unknown and Questiona-
BILE Source, and Another from Au'
thority Unquestioned.


thority Unquestioned.
From the Evening Times, 18th.
A resident of Wichita, Kansas, writ
ing to a friend in this city, saws: 81
have concluded that it will not do to
invest in property in Texas until the
prohibition question is settled. have
lived here under so-callcd prohibition
and il is huge fraud in every sense OF
of the word. If the people of Texas
could see the effects of mock prohibi-
ton in Kansas, they would bury 1t
too deep to ever resurrect again: tbs
the biggest fraud on record. There is
more whisky sold and used here than
ever. All the difference is that 1t is
handled in a different way, and the
quality is. villainous. You know
that / do not touclS 1t, but Tom
does, and he is like hundreds ofothers
that do, committing suicide by drink
ing the villalnous stuff called whisky.
Instead of it being dispensed legitl--
mately it is distributed from dives and
rat holes. For instance, this is one
way they work the thing: A fellow
starts drug store or ostensibly q gro
cery. Tom. Dick and Harry leave their
Jugs or kegs to be filled with swine
garr wlasses" or something not pro-
hibited. They are filled with the vilest
of whisky. Another who wants only
quart or pint gives the store-keeper
his saddle pockets or valise TO put
aside for him. They have the flask to
Indicate the amount wanted, and the
change accompanies it. Now what is
the difference and the effect OF this :!
Why this, the consumer buys moro at a
time, drinks twice as much, encourages
drinking on the quiet among many
who never drank before and ruins him
ten times quicker financially, physically
and mentally. Then the druggists
and others have introduced what is
called fruit 10 .enges. They are gum
sack about the size of plum, of the
color of that fruit and contain good
sized swallow of the meanest kind of
whisky, wine or brandy. They come
in pocket cases, and when the drinker
is at church, the theater or any other
public affair he can slip q plum
into his mouth, compress his teeth,
and have his drink without anyone be-
ing the wiser of it. After every pub
lie gathering the janitor of the build
ing has more plum" skins than any
thing else to sweep out. If prohibit
ton carries in Texas the same devices
will be resorted to and this is why l
do not desire to jump out of the fry
ing pan into the fire. AS soon as L
can wind up my business | propose
going to some State where this great
fraud has no chance of carrying
However, if Texas SHOWS it under l
will certainly make that State, like
many others here will, my home.
am still in the real estate business"
More likely the broken down fraud
ulent drug store business.
DALLAS, Tex, May ~. 1887.
Editor Dallas Herald
DEAR SIR Enclosed / send you
copy of letter from Wichita, Kansas
which you will please publish as a
matter of news, and also as a reply to
the one from the same place published
in the Times of May IL?
| quote the following from St
Louis paper (the st. Louis Evangelist,
of May 10, 1887:
"The people of Wichits have been
spreading out in every direction,
grading streets, laying out lots, build
ing fine stores and stately mansions
"Rev. j. ID. Hewitt, the pastor OF
the First Presbyterian Church, is q
thorough going Scotchman, wise in
head, and warm in heart, broad in
ideas, and we'll ballasted with lots Of
Drawn and muscle both in body and
mind"
1T is astonishing, the preparation
that the people of Wichita are making
for the education of their sons and
daughters, and the youth ofthcir com
munities and coming generations. II
sounds strange to be told that there
are some ten colleges and universetie;
projected within the city limits, and
some of them In course of construc
tion." Very respectfully,
w. A. BoLEs.
WICHITA, Kan. May Is, 1887.
W. A. Boles.
DEAR SIR-Your favor of the 16tl
is at hand, / am sorry have no time
to answer in full your communication
As for the clipping you send me
from the Evening Times of May the
18th, please say for me it is a thor